From the article: > The compensatory damages were based on both lost profits of the plaintiff and disgorgement of profits of Orange. Moral damages compensate t

From the article: > The compensatory damages were based on both lost profits of the plaintiff and disgorgement of profits of Orange. Moral damages compensate the plaintiff for harm to reputation or other non-monetary injury. Sounds like they had their profits from the breach taken away, and they also had to pay extra in "moral" damages, and also likely would have had to pay both sides' legal fees, as well as having to sink hundreds or thousands of hours into the case. Damages for breach of IP rights (or contract) are generally calculated on the basis of well defined principles, it's not like where a regulator is handing down a fine and has a broad level of discretion to come up with whatever number it deems fair in the circumstances.